Thanx for this post. I wonder why "Seo's" in other forums crying cause of that little bird and waste the time with that. I do not wonder abour phrases like "Google wont quality any more cause i am hit by Google". This post remeber that Seo is an ongoing business. So i think.
May 03, 2012

i think the yahoo directory isnt a good example. for google and all other searchenginecrawlers it must be an point to start to get as much sites as possible from the beginning of they existence and than someone can make compromises.

cn you really test such things. I think no one can know how google is treating that. maybe u as number one have the same percentage of all kinds of links as your competition but in summary more as your competitors and so on.

my experience with an site is that this site is owning a bit more as 1000 links at the hole domain and is at number three in serps for the relevant keyowrds/keyphrases. the two before and the much after this site own >70000 - 140000 links at the hole domain. full of affiliation and spamlinks. and with a kind that someone can just shake his head about this thing. they have much more spamsites and sattelite sites with more than one link to the desired site and they get these links with the same text.

i cant agree with you affiliate issue and your notion that this is in according to the webmasterguideline of google and sometime someone in your competitive neightborhood will strike down all your efforts because it is spam. And i dont believe that google is checking your site as much as possible. your just out, your work is deflagrated in the www and you have to work much much more and longer to come to the same Ranking in the SERPS. Why not save this hole thing and work with googleguidelines from the beginning of your work.

Affiliate in my opinion put no more good user experience and value in addition to the canonical site for all your visitors. it is more the danger that you produce duplicate content with your canonical site dont be in the index for your keyphrases.

look at the travel market. All of the leading companies with the most "products" arent number one, whether content is king and more products is more content in offer, info and knowledge space. the only time you see this companies is in googleAdds and when you meet an affiliate. i think it is wasted money, time and energie.

PS: And if someone is giving a spamreport because of competition your reputation is lost and you have to build it up again.

I have to correct me. Can u explain me whats happen when your competition is work like this? Every single "serious" page maintain its own satellite pages and google have to work more for what more? that all are at the same bottomline and maybe marked for the future in my opinion. I think google is treat the diverse domains with the same name in whois-tools and/or imprint as one domain and the other way is affiliation in my opinion.

I think u can do so much more in a more legal way. Link building for the special local issue with local sites in the near and/or topics for both. Good local subsection in your main page and articels/blogposts at other sites or with other people at your own blog/articelbase.

What real user experience exist with this way when just you or you in majority being in the SERPS as you suggest? And i believe u will be more or less with all of your examples.

I think it is not according to the GoogleGuidelines and have no more sustainable value to the user. Note that the competition is decreasing of the time and all what remains after that is that the rest goes in convenience. In my opinion.

PS: Not the keywords in domain is the only big thing u can got to get relevance by search engine. What is that what i have to "white label" is still in my mind by reading your post the second time.

I cant speak for the other one but for travel it is an affiliation in my opinion. Due to my competition research for a client in this branch i saw some site´s they inform they visitors, in a "noindex"-page, that they have 1000 of "partnersites". these site´s produce in my opinion duplicated content, cause of the same information they expose to the web. A little amount of such site´s link direkly to the big one in they product and overview pages. And they build a link farm in this manner. One sentences they use is " we bring u linkjuice and u bring us traffic". An other circumstance is that they bui links in an other "noindex"-page. Like "if u link to us one piece of our service for u will be free" all other have to pay.

thanks for the post and the tip for an convenient solution to show results and progress in seo work. nice website too. i like the colors and the play of the panel from twitter to rss feed.June 15, 2010

I dont think this helps too. You must renew the amount of traffic u send. Like news clicks are maybe transitory, in my opinion. So your work may start again and again. More likely you are in best practice by working one time as suggested. June 02, 2010